EP’s 2011 Recap: Part 3, The Battle of BlogCon11

by elpresidente | 10:00 am, December 29, 2011

MIC CHECK!!! Turning briefly from straight-out investigative reporting or blogging, one of the highlights of my year was working with the fabulous Tabitha Hale, formerly New Media director at FreedomWorks, to put together a panel on ‘Building a State Blog Network’ for the group’s BlogCon11 conference held fortuitously in Denver in November. Simply being listed [...]

EP’s 2011 Recap: Part 2, Exploding The Myth of Green Jobs

by elpresidente | 9:00 am, December 29, 2011

Challenging the myth of former Gov. Bill Ritter’s fabled “New Energy Economy” was no small task, but thankfully this endeavor paid off more than its fair share of earned media dividends, and cemented my collaborative efforts with one of my favorite writers and mentors, Amy Oliver. Way back in February, a hot tip was passed [...]

EP’s 2011 Recap: Part 1, Surging Independents

by elpresidente | 8:00 am, December 29, 2011

It has been a long year. Rather than an exhaustive recap, allow me, if you will, to take a quick look back on the top stories that came across my virtual workdesk in 2011–stories of original research, investigation, or reporting that I published on the pages of People’s Press Collective, Independence Institute/Townhall, National Review Online, [...]

Ranking the Top Political Stories in Colorado for 2011

by elpresidente | 6:21 am, December 22, 2011

People’s Press Collective has thrown together a quick, informal, and non-intended-to-be-scientific-but-fun-anyway survey for our readers to rank their Top Political Stories in Colorado for the past year. There have been some doozies, which would be an understatement.

Bombshell: CSU Profs Downgrade Ability To Predict Hurricanes Six Months Out, “Have Not Shown Real-Time Forecast Skill”

by elpresidente | 6:13 am, December 14, 2011

Every year for almost three decades hurricane predictions made by Colorado State University professor William Gray–joined by Philip Klotzbach–have made the news cycle, with people especially vulnerable to the next year’s batch of damaging hurricanes paying particular interest to the number of storms forecasted by reputable research scientists. After 20 years, the CSU profs took [...]

We Got Your Back: Prop 103 Supporters Chime In with Support for Heath; Attack GOP, Hickenlooper

by elpresidente | 6:46 am, November 30, 2011

My colleague Todd Shepherd of Complete Colorado forwarded me these emails sent to State Sen. Rollie Heath (D), the main proponent of Prop 103, the tax-raising education ballot initiative that failed 63.5 to 36.4 percent on November 1. **Update–the emails were obtained using a Colorado Open Records Act request. For your viewing pleasure: Heath Emails [...]

Occupy Denver at BlogCon11: More Video, Blog Roundup

by elpresidente | 11:09 am, November 12, 2011

Breitbart TV has a great roundup of a bunch of videos from yesterday’s festivities when #OccupyDenver tried to take on #BlogCon11. Ed at Hot Air provides a link roundup, and Jim Hoft points out the teacher from Denver who thought it was a good idea to bring students down to experience democracy. More at memeorandum. [...]

Occupy Denver, after failing at BlogCon11, moved on to Occupy H&M

by elpresidente | 5:46 pm, November 11, 2011

Occupy Denver attempts to Occupy #BlogCon11: Video and Photos

by elpresidente | 3:19 pm, November 11, 2011

Independence Institute: Vern Bickel Award Cocktail Party

by elpresidente | 2:48 pm, November 10, 2011

Laugh with us as we honor a great cartoonist! Join your friends at the Independence Institute for our first ever Vern Bickel Award Cocktail Party! We’re partying next Thursday, November 17 at Cableland in Denver. Cableland, as you may know, is the 19,500-square-foot mansion built by Denver philanthropist and Cable TV pioneer Bill Daniels. We [...]

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